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Geomorphological Environments of High-density Residential Zone in Baekseokdong, Cheonan, Chungnam in the Bronze Age (충남 천안 백석동 청동기 시대 주거지 밀집 구역의 지형 환경)

  • Park, Jong-Chul;Park, Ji-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.297-312
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    • 2011
  • Understanding the distribution and location characteristics of the settlements is preliminary study on discovering the formation and extinction process of the settlements used information of archeological excavation. So far, most researchers have been concerned about the location-environment of the dwelling. However, this study focuses on the understanding of the geomorphological environments in high-density residential zone. The study area is located in Cheonan, Chungnam, South Korea. It is called the Baekseokdong Heritage Group, which has 205 dwelling sites in the bronze age. This study is considered micro-landforms of hillslope, slope, and aspect from a view of geomorphological environments. In the study area, The high-density residential zones, the bronze ages dwelling sites are concentrated, consists mainly of slope land between undulated plain and semi -gentle of crest slope or crest flat, and south-facing aspect(southwest-south-southeast).

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Distribution and Habitat Chracteristics of Lonicera japonica Thunb. in the Inland and the Seashore Areas of Korea

  • Kim, Seong-Min;Shin, Dong-Il;Yoon, Seong-Tak;Song, Hong-Seon
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.362-366
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    • 2007
  • This study was conducted to evaluate the status of habitat distribution, environmental characteristics and plant species growing with Lonicera japonica in its habitats. In the distribution of plant coverage below 30%, it was 84.6% in the inland area and 80.7% in the seashore area. There was similar coverage in both inland and seashore areas. But the average relative coverage in the seashore area was 26.1%, which is a little higher than that of the inland area (22.5%). In the habitats, both inland and seashore areas showed a high distribution ratio below 10 degrees. But among them, inland areas showed a high distribution ratio (62.4%) below 10 degrees, which was about twice as much as the seashore areas (32.2%). Habitat distribution was most often found on the southern slopes in both inland and seashore areas. The average soil pH of Lonicera japonica habitat was 5.2 in the inland areas and 6.9 in the seashore areas. Also, the seashore areas showed little content of $P_2O_5$, but high content of K, Mg, Na on the other hand compared to the inland area. Miscanthus sinensis was the highest importance value (16.4) among plants growing with Lonicera japonica in their habitats in both inland and seashore areas. But in the inland areas, Artemisia princeps showed the highest importance value, and Miscanthus sinensis was the highest in the seashore areas.

The Historical Background of the Development of Changwon Industrial Complex: A Geopolitical Economy Approach (지리정치경제학적 관점에서 본 창원공단 설립 전사(前史))

  • Choi, Young Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.178-199
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    • 2014
  • Changwon Industrial Complex is commonly framed as the best example of strong initiative of the Korean developmental state. And this explanation has been given in the theoretical frame of 'neo-Weberian accounts' i.e., strongly 'national-territorial' and state-centric terms of the predominant. I argue that a geopolitical economy approach focusing on the historical background of the development of Changwon Industrial Complex will shed light on crucial sociospatial dimensions of the Korean developmental state's industrial complex success. I examine, in particular, the multi-scalar processes through which the changes of the industrial complex building plans for the promotion of machine industry in 1960's have been influenced by the complex and dynamic interactions among social actors acting at diverse geographical scales. I show that the formation of the industrial complex in Korea was more heavily influenced by the interactions, contestations, and collaborations among social actors, acting in and through the state, rather than by the state initiative.

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A Study on Weathering Processes of Tafoni in Mt. Cheonsaeng, Gumi, the Republic of Korea: Interpretation of Water Content Data using GIS Interpolation Analysis (구미 천생산 타포니의 풍화과정에 관한 연구: GIS 보간법을 활용한 함수율 측정 자료의 해석)

  • Shin, Jae-Ryul;Lee, Jin-Kook;Choo, Chang-Oh;Park, Kyung-Gun
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.543-552
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    • 2015
  • This study examines the processes of rock weathering and tafoni formation targeting tafoni at Mt. Cheonsaeng, Gumi-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do. In the study area, a frequency of tafoni is high in conglomerate and conglomeratic sandstone among regional sedimentary rocks, which means that an initial stage of the formation begins a breakaway of gravel from bedrock and also exfoliation from rock surface. Geomorphologically tafoni have intensively been developed at the southfacing slope with exposed rocks, which means that its formation was favorably controlled by environmental conditions including strong influences of mechanical weathering in winter and chemical weathering in summer times. The results of measuring water content at a tafoni-bearing rock surface using GIS interpolation analysis indicate that moisture rate in/around tafoni is higher than the periphery. Thus, it is considered that moisture distribution at a rock surface plays a role in its formation. Analysis of percipitation and secondary minerals induced by chemical weathering is in progress.

A Study on Five Circuits and Six Qi Learning of Japan (일본의 운기학(運氣學)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Yun, Chang-yeol
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.17-47
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: The three nations of far Northeastern Asia, namely China, Korea, and Japan, have developed a tradition of Asian medicine within a common cultural realm. Studying Japan's Yunqi not only helps our understanding of Japanese traditional medicine, but the course of development taken by the three nations' traditional Asian medicine as a whole. Methods: All books relating to Yunqi published in Japan were studied, with special focus on books that are especially more important. Results: It is assumed that Japan's first book on Yunqi is 吉田宗桂's Ungiileonjib. The Japanese mainstream study on Yunqi is the annotations and studies on Suwenrushiyungilunao, written by Liuwenshu. YunQiLunAoKouYiis the first annotation on Suwenrushiyungilunao and had the greatest impact. Yunqilunjujie is an annotation book written by a Confucian scholar, and Yunqilunaoshuchao an annotation book composed by a Confucian doctor who was a thorough expert on sinology and the annotations ranged greatly from medical books, Confucian books, historical books and hundred schools of books. Aotouyunqilun is the most slight in terms of annotations compared to other annotation books, and Yunqilunaoyanjie is special in that it writes with both Chinese characters and Japanese language in order to help easier understanding by the novice scholars. Conclusions: Suwenrushiyunqilunao includes astronomy, geography, delivery sound, calendar, the eight trigrams, the Twelve laws, Shier chen, Constellation of twenty eight, Thirty-six birds, and secret days, which is leading to further study in these fields. Suwenrushiyunqilunao also contains excerpts from Suwen Liujiecangxianglun to describe the algorithm of the operation of Sun and Moon, which is also leading a further study in the field.

A Study on the Types of "Gogyeong-Jeongripyo" and Its Genealogy ("거경정리표(距京程里表)"의 내용유형과 계통에 관한 연구)

  • Todoroki, Hiroshi
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.45 no.5
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    • pp.647-668
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    • 2010
  • As well as "Sangyeongpyo," "Gogyeong-Jeongripyo," table of national road transportation system is important to comprehend identity of national geography in Joseon era even if it had not been researched yet. The aim of this study is to divide type of these tables and find its genealogy through mainly analyzing the road network and land names. As the result of this research, "Yeojigo," topographical researches of Korea, edited by Shin Gyeong-Jun as a palt of "Dongguk-Munheonbigo" official book in natural history of the Joseon Dynasty published in 1770, might be identified as the origin for all copy of "Gogyeong-Jeongripyo." Then "Gogyeong-Jeongripyo," can be divided into at least three major types; almost direct descent of "Yeoji go" as 'type1', minor modification as 'type2', and hybrid edition(type3) with second type that quoted many land names as route information from "Dorogo," another topography specialized for road transportation. Since "Dorogo" was also composed by Shin, after all, all genealogy of "Gogyeong-Jeongripyo" came from him.

The Change of Seasonal Trend Appeared in Wintertime Daily Mean Temperature of Seoul, Korea (서울의 겨울철 일평균 기온에 나타난 계절 추이와 변화)

  • Park, Byong-Ik
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.152-167
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    • 2011
  • This study aims to investigate the change of seasonal trend appeared in the daily normals of wintertime daily mean temperature of Seoul for 1941~1970 and 1971~2000 and the factors to affect it. The lowest temperature in wintertime is appeared in the period of the first and second ten-days of January in the daily normals for 1941~1970 and in the third ten-days of January and the first ten-days of February for 1971~2000. This means seasonal trend was changed. This change is due to the fact average temperature from 27 December to 20 January is rising much more than the wintertime mean temperature and average temperature from 21 January to 9 February less than that for two daily normals. This features are notable after 1971. The Siberian high and norther wind around the Korean Peninsula are weakened remarkably recently, so mean temperature of Seoul from 27 December to 20 January is warming much more. On the other hand, the Siberian high from 21 January to 9 February is weakened and the Aleutian low is strengthened recently and northerly is not change obviously, so temperature of Seoul is not warming so much.

The Study for the Spatial Distribution and Ethnic Background of Female Marriage Immigrants in Korea (결혼이주여성의 거주 분포와 민족적 배경에 관한 소고 : 베트남.필리핀을 중심으로)

  • Ryu, Ju-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.71-85
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    • 2012
  • Marriage Immigrants have greater impact on local communities than migrant workers and foreign students, all the more because their children are relatively more important. Therefore, this study aims to inquire into the fundamental cause on the choice of residential location of marriage immigrants. Residential segregation is often considered to be one of the social problems that intensify locality of residential district. Although migrant workers and foreign students cannot freely decide their residential location at the outset, they could change their residence later on. However marriage immigrants are not free from the residential location choice continuously. The intentional(involuntary) residential segregation brings differential residence of marriage immigrants. The residential segregation of marriage immigrants is concerned with the close relationship of their ethnic background and the community characteristic with focus on Vietnamese and Filipino. The results of this study could be used basic guideline for community development policy for marriage immigrants.

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Solution Approaches to Multiple Viewpoint Problems: Comparative Analysis using Topographic Features (다중가시점 문제해결을 위한 접근방법: 지형요소를 이용한 비교 분석을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Young-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.84-95
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents solution heuristics to solving optimal multiple-viewpoint location problems that are based on topographic features. The visibility problem is to maximise the viewshed area for a set of viewpoints on digital elevation models (DEM). For this analysis, five areas are selected, and fundamental topographic features (peak, pass, and pit) are extracted from the DEMs of the study areas. To solve the visibility problem, at first, solution approaches based on the characteristics of the topographic features are explored, and then, a benchmark test is undertaken that solution performances of the solution methods, such as computing times, and visible area sizes, are compared with the performances of traditional spatial heuristics. The feasibility of the solution methods, then, are discussed with the benchmark test results. From the analysis, this paper can conclude that fundamental topographic features based solution methods suggest a new sight of visibility analysis approach which did not discuss in traditional algorithmic approaches. Finally, further research avenues are suggested such as exploring more sophisticated selection process of topographic features related to visibility analysis, exploiting systematic methods to extract topographic features, and robust spatial analytical techniques and optimization techniques that enable to use the topographic features effectively.

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A Study on The Development and Management of The IT Standard Contents for On-line Education Based on SCORM(Sharable Content Object Reference Model) (SCORM 기반의 온라인 교육 IT 표준 컨텐츠 개발 및 운영에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Hae-Gill
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.7-14
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    • 2008
  • To nurture skilled IT professionals required in the 21st information society, we have been faced to the need of learner-centered open lifelong education through the e-learning system that crosses the boundaries of time, space and geography. The object of this research is primarily as-is analysis of the IT contents in present cyber institutions, then making out the basic research data by to-be analysis and international standardization trend through benchmarking. Eventually this research intends to produce a prototype of the contents especially for the subjects related to the IT which is based on the modeling of e-Learning standard contents development model. It is possible that the final output of this project is used for the contents producing and operating data in cyber universities and institutions. This output also enhances the international competitiveness by the standardization and presents a standardized guideline to the domestic cyber education institutions.